Secondary Side Cascaded (SSC) Winding-Coupled Bidirectional Converter with Wide ZVS Range and High Conversion Gain

In this article, a secondary side cascaded bidirectional dc–dc converter (SSC-BDC) is proposed with the winding-coupled structure for the bidirectional operations of power flow, which features high voltage gain, full range of soft switching, low current ripple in low voltage side, and extended duty cycle range. Derived from a current-fed dual active bridge converter, the interleaved buck/boost circuit in the primary side is cascaded with the secondary side of full-bridge circuit through the winding coupled inductor to achieve high voltage gain. The differential voltage is designed to generate the bias current to realize soft switching of the eight power switches within a wide range of load variation. Meanwhile, pulse width modulation (PWM) plus phase-shift modulation is used to eliminate backflow power and increase conversion efficiency. The operation principle, steady-state analysis, and comparison result are presented in detail. Finally, a 1-kW experimental prototype is constructed to verify the feasibility of the SSC-BDC, and the correctness of the theoretical analyses is validated by experimental results.